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Revisiting Autovivification

Last time I spoke about wrapping hash access I got a bit more than I bargained for. It’s still something I’m tempted to do from time to time.

Autovivification by default is very sensible (or perhaps Perl just suits me). When I set a parameter within a structure, I generally want all the ancestors to be created first. That’s why I have the following aliases to mkdir.